List of non-marine molluscs of Cyprus explained

The non-marine molluscs of Cyprus are a part of the molluscan fauna of Cyprus (wildlife of Cyprus).

A number of species of non-marine molluscs are found in the wild in Cyprus.

Freshwater gastropods

Freshwater gastropods in Cyprus include:

Neritidae

• Theodoxus anatolicus (Recluz 1841)^[1]

Melanopsidae

• Melanopsis praemorsa (Linnaeus 1758)^[1]

Hydrobiidae

• Islamia mylonas Radea, Parmakelis, Demetropoulos & Vardinoyannis, 2017^[2]
• Pseudamnicola malickyi Schütt 1980^{[1] [3]}

Tateidae

• Potamopyrgus antipodarum (Gray 1843)^[1]

Lymnaeidae

• Galba truncatula (O. F. Müller 1774)^[1]
• Radix peregra (O. F. Müller 1774)^[1]

Physidae

• Physella acuta (Draparnaud 1801)^[1]

Planorbidae

• Ancylus fluviatilis O. F. Müller 1774^[1]
• Gyraulus piscinarum (Bourguignat 1852)^[1]

Land gastropods

Land gastropods in Cyprus include:Ellobiidae

• Carychium sp.^[4]

Succineidae

• Succinea putris (Linnaeus, 1758)^[4]

Cochlicopidae

• Cochlicopa lubrica (O. F. Müller, 1774)^[4]

Lauridae

• Lauria cylindracea (Da Costa, 1778)^[4]

Orculidae

• Orculella sirianocoriensis (Mousson, 1854)^{[4] [5]}

Pleurodiscidae

• Pleurodiscus cyprius (Kobelt, 1896)^[4]

Pyramidulidae

• Pyramidula pusilla (Vallot, 1801)^[4]
• Pyramidula rupestris (Draparnaud, 1801)^[4]

Truncatellinidae

• Truncatellina cylindrica (J. B. Férussac, 1807) (as Truncatellina rothi (Reinhardt, 1916))^[4]

Valloniidae

• Gittenbergia sororcula (Benoit, 1859)^[4]
• Vallonia pulchella (O. F. Müller, 1774)^[4]

Chondrinidae

• Granopupa granum (Draparnaud, 1801)^[4]
• Rupestrella rhodia (J. R. Roth, 1839)^[4]

Enidae

• Buliminus carneus (Pfeiffer, 1846)^[6]
• Euchondrus ledereri (Pfeiffer, 1868)^[7]
• Euchondrus limbodentatus (Mousson, 1854)^[8]
• Euchondrus nucifragus (Pfeiffer, 1848)^[4]
• Euchondrus parreyssi (Pfeiffer, 1846)^[4]
• Multidentula lamellifera (Rossmässler, 1858)^[9]
• Multidentula stylus (Pfeiffer, 1848)^[4]
• Paramastus cyprius Zilch, 1951^{[4] [10]}
• Turanena katerinae E. Gittenberger, 1996^[4]
• Zebrina fasciolata (Olivier, 1801)^{[4] [11]}

Clausiliidae

• Albinaria alajana cypria Nordsieck, 1993^[12]
• Albinaria greeni Tomlin, 1935^{[4] [13] [14]}
  • Albinaria greeni amorosa H. Nordsieck, 2021^[15]
  • Albinaria greeni greeni Tomlin, 1935^[13]
• Albinaria mavromoustakisi Brandt, 1961^{[13] [16]}
• Albinaria rollei (Boettger, 1896)^{[13] [17]}
• Albinaria saxatilis (Pfeiffer, 1846)^{[4] [13] [18]}
  • Albinaria saxatilis avia (Charpentier, 1852)^{[13] [19]}
  • Albinaria saxatilis saxatilis (Pfeiffer, 1846)^[13]
• Albinaria virgo (Mousson, 1854)^{[8] [13]}
• Elia moesta (Rossmässler, 1839)^[4]

Punctidae

• Paralaoma servilis (Shuttleworth, 1852)^[4]
• Punctum pygmaeum (Draparnaud, 1801)^[4]

Oxychilidae

• Carpathica cretica (Forcart, 1950)^[20]
• Daudebardia rufa (Draparnaud, 1805)^[4]
• Eopolita protensa (A. Férussac, 1832)^[4]
• Mediterranea hydatina (Rossmässler, 1838)^[4]
• Oxychilus camelinus (Bourguignat, 1852)^[4]
• Oxychilus cyprius (L. Pfeiffer, 1847)^[4]
• Oxychilus mavromoustakisi (F. Haas, 1934)^{[4] [21]}

Pristilomatidae

• Gollumia torumbilicata Schütt, 2001^[22]
• Vitrea contracta (Westerlund, 1871)^[4]
• Vitrea cyprina Westerlund, 1902^[4]

Agriolimacidae

• Deroceras berytensis (Bourguignat, 1852)^{[4] [23]}
• Deroceras chrysorroyatissensis Rähle, 1984^{[4] [23]}
• Deroceras famagustensis Rähle, 1991^{[4] [23]}

Limacidae

• Limacus flavus (Linnaeus, 1758)^{[4] [23]}

Milacidae

• Milax barypus Bourguignat, 1866^{[4] [23]}
• Milax riedeli Wiktor, 1986^{[4] [23]}
• Tandonia sowerbyi (A. Férussac, 1823)^[4]

Achatinidae

• Rumina saharica Pallary, 1901^[4]

Ferrusaciidae

• Calaxis hierosolymarum (J. R. Roth, 1855)^[4] (occasionally as Calaxis cypria (Kobelt, 1896))
• Cecilioides acicula (O. F. Müller, 1774)^[4]
• Cecilioides tumulorum (Bourguignat, 1856)^[4]
• Hohenwartiana hohenwarti (Rossmässler, 1839)^[4]

Geomitridae

• Candidula syrensis (Pfeiffer, 1846)
• Cochlicella acuta (Muller, 1774)^[4]
• Cochlicella conoidea (Draparnaud, 1801)
• Helicella juglans Gittenberger, 1991^[4]
• Helicopsis filimargo (Krynicki, 1833)^[4]
• Helicopsis cypriola (Westerlund, 1889)^{[4] [24]}
• Microxeromagna armillata (Lowe, 1852)^{[4] [24]}
• Pseudoxerophila confusa Gittenberger, 1991^{[4] [24]}
• Trochoidea liebetruti (Albers, 1852)^{[4] [24]}
• Trochoidea pyramidata (Draparnaud, 1805)^[24]
• Xerocrassa carinatoglobosa (Haas, 1934)^{[4] [21] [25]}
• Xerocrassa cretica (L. Pfeiffer, 1841)^{[4] [24] [26]}
• Xerocrassa nicosiana (Gittenberger, 1991)^{[4] [24]}
• Xeromunda candiota (Mousson, 1854)^{[4] [24]}
• Xeropicta akrotirica Gittenberger, 1991^{[4] [24]}
• Xeropicta krynickii (Krynicki, 1833)^{[4] [24]} (including Ceropicta smyrnocretica^[4] and Xeropicta vestalis^[4])
• Xeropicta ledereri (Pfeiffer, 1856)^[24]
  • Xeropicta ledereri ledereri (Pfeiffer, 1856)^{[4] [24]}
  • Xeropicta ledereri mavromoustakisi (Haas, 1933)^{[4] [24]}
• Xeropicta mesopotamica (Mousson, 1874)^[4]
• Xerotricha apicina (Lamarck, 1822)^{[4] [24]}
• Xerotricha conspurcata (Draparnaud, 1801)^[24]

Hygromiidae

• Metafruticicola berytensis (L. Pfeiffer, 1841)^[27]
• Metafruticicola nicosianus (Mousson, 1854)^{[4] [28]}
• Monacha syriaca (Ehrenberg, 1831)^{[4] [29]}

Helicidae

• Cantareus apertus (Born, 1778)^[4]
• Cornu aspersum (O. F. Müller, 1774)^[4]
• Eobania vermiculata (O. F. Müller, 1774)^[4]
• Assyriella bellardii (Mousson, 1854)^{[8] [4]}
• Helix cincta O. F. Müller, 1758^{[4] [30]}
• Helix nucula Mousson, 1854^[30] (occasionally as Helix texta^[4])
• Levantina spiriplana (Olivier, 1801)^{[4] [31]}
• Theba pisana (O. F. Müller, 1774)^[4]

Polygyridae

• Polygyra cereolus (Megerle von Mühlfeldt, 1818)^[4]

Trissexodontidae

• Caracollina lenticula (Michaud, 1831)^[4]

Freshwater bivalves

Freshwater bivalves in Cyprus include:

Sphaeriidae

• Pisidium casertanum (Poli 1795)^[1]

See also

Lists of molluscs of surrounding oversea countries:

• List of non-marine molluscs of Turkey
• List of non-marine molluscs of Syria
• List of non-marine molluscs of Lebanon
• List of non-marine molluscs of Israel
• List of non-marine molluscs of Egypt

Notes and References

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2. Canella Radea, Aristeidis Parmakelis, Simon Demetropoulos & Katerina Vardinoyannis (2017). "A new Islamia species (Gastropoda: Hydrobiidae) from Cyprus". Folia Malacologica 25(4): 231–236. DOI:10.12657/folmal.025.022
3. Glöer . Peter . Reuselaars . Robert . The Pseudamnicola spp. from Greece (Gastropoda: Hydrobiidae) with the description of four new species . Ecologica Montenegrina . 20 June 2020 . 32 . 19–25 . 10.37828/em.2020.32.3. free .
4. Book: Vardinoyannis . K. . Dimitropoulos . S. . Mylonas . M. . [Atlas of snails in Cyprus] . 2012 . Lefkosía.
5. Triantis, K. . 2011 . Orculella sirianocoriensis . 2011 . e.T156803A4999941 . 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2011-1.RLTS.T156803A4999941.en . 18 November 2021.
6. Triantis, K. & Vardinoyannis, K. 2020. Buliminus carneus (amended version of 2011 assessment). The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2020: e.T156318A176415141. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2020-3.RLTS.T156318A176415141.en. Downloaded on 06 April 2021.
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14. Tomlin, J. R. le B. 1935. A new Albinaria from Cyprus. - Journal of Conchology 20: 164-165. London.
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18. Pfeiffer, L. 1846. Symbolae ad historiam heliceorum. Sectio tertia. - pp. 1-100. Cassellis. (Th. Fischer).
19. Charpentier, J. de 1852. Essai d'une classification naturelle des clausilies. - Journal de Conchyliologie 3: 357-408, Pl. XI [= 11]. Paris.
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22. Hartwig Schütt (2001). "Zwei neue Arten der Gattung Gollumia Riedel (Gastropoda: Stylommatophora: Zonitidae)". Stuttgarter Beiträge zur Naturkunde Serie A (Biologie) 629: 1-7.
23. Katerina Vardinoyannis, Simon Demetropoulos, Moissis Mylonas, Kostas A.Triantis, Christodoulos Makris, Gabriel Georgiou, Andrzej Wiktor & Andreas Demetropoulos (2012). "Terrestrial slugs (Gastropoda, Pulmonata) in the NATURA 2000 areas of Cyprus island". ZooKeys 174: 63–77. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.174.2474
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26. Vardinoyannis, K. . Triantis, K. . 2011 . Xerocrassa cretica . 2011 . e.T156466A4949449 . 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2011-1.RLTS.T156466A4949449.en . 18 November 2021.
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